Presto-digitation Posted June 5, 2014 Author Share Posted June 5, 2014 I haven't, but I'll be sure to look them up on your recommendation Sheldon. Thanks so much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maverick Posted June 5, 2014 Share Posted June 5, 2014 J. D. Simo and Jo Bonamassa are good buddies. I was watching the Rig Rundown of Simo's rig on YouTube, and he mentions Bonamassa. And he uses one of Bonamassa's signature Wah pedals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Presto-digitation Posted June 5, 2014 Author Share Posted June 5, 2014 Any of you guys heard of the band Simo? I got their self titled first album today, and I really like what I have heard so far. They are in the vein of what we are talking about in here. Makes me wish Glenn Hughes would have tapped J. D. Simo to be the guitarist for California Breed. Wow. Listened to two clips (What's On Your Mind and I'd Rather Die In Vain)...and I'm buying the album just off the strength of these two cuts. THANKS so much man. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maverick Posted June 5, 2014 Share Posted June 5, 2014 Any of you guys heard of the band Simo? I got their self titled first album today, and I really like what I have heard so far. They are in the vein of what we are talking about in here. Makes me wish Glenn Hughes would have tapped J. D. Simo to be the guitarist for California Breed. Wow. Listened to two clips (What's On Your Mind and I'd Rather Die In Vain)...and I'm buying the album just off the strength of these two cuts. THANKS so much man. We share great music ITT!!! Have you heard of Doyle Bramhall II? His album Welcome is in this same vein, too, and I think it is brilliant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Presto-digitation Posted June 5, 2014 Author Share Posted June 5, 2014 Four things at a time, man. ;) Remind about this one down the road. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maverick Posted June 5, 2014 Share Posted June 5, 2014 Hmmmm...Looks like What's on Your Mind is on the album, but I'd Rather Die In Vain must be from another release. He does have a couple of solo albums. I haven't heard the whole album, yet, but track 3 seemed to go right into track 4, and I rally dug how he did it. That would be Fool For You and Clementia's Lament. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 Ok my CB album finally arrived, listening to it now, first track "The Way" sounds good, the production is beefy and organic, not brick-walled at all which is a relief... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maverick Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 Ok my CB album finally arrived, listening to it now, first track "The Way" sounds good, the production is beefy and organic, not brick-walled at all which is a relief... Aye. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 Ok my CB album finally arrived, listening to it now, first track "The Way" sounds good, the production is beefy and organic, not brick-walled at all which is a relief... Aye.It's not a bad album though kind of fades a little by the last 4 or 5 tracks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod in Toronto Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 Bonham leaves the band... http://classicrock.teamrock.com/news/2014-08-04/bonham-bows-out-of-california-breed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toscanobarga Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 Anyone else seeing a trend here ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Presto-digitation Posted August 6, 2014 Author Share Posted August 6, 2014 Yeah. Joe gets TONS of shit and now this. Look inward Glenn. Only underscores just how great BCC was by comparison. Just not impressed with Watt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 It's basically a Glenn Hughes solo project now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Presto-digitation Posted August 6, 2014 Author Share Posted August 6, 2014 It's all he can manage, apparently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maverick Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 Yeah. Joe gets TONS of shit and now this. Look inward Glenn. Only underscores just how great BCC was by comparison. Just not impressed with Watt. I guess there's a real reason what a good bass player with such a great voice hasn't really been in any great bands for most of 40 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Presto-digitation Posted August 25, 2014 Author Share Posted August 25, 2014 ^ I can't argue this. Not to lay all the blame on Glenn, but it surely ceases to be everyone else's fault at some point. Not that he's claimed that, necessarily, but some of his supporters intimate that. They really gave Bonamassa a ration of shit over his efforts with BCC...and here we are again. Joe quits, Derek Sherinian goes to play with Joe, and now Jason summarily quits the band that he and Glenn created saying that commitments would permit him from touring with the band (sound familiar!?!?) and that it "just wasn't going to work out." :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod in Toronto Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 Glenn may be tough to work with, but he has only recovered from his addictions in the early 90's, and he did try hard to make it work as a solo artist right up to when BCC was formed. So it's not like he's been trying to put a band together for the past 40 years and failing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maverick Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 Glenn may be tough to work with, but he has only recovered from his addictions in the early 90's, and he did try hard to make it work as a solo artist right up to when BCC was formed. So it's not like he's been trying to put a band together for the past 40 years and failing. True enough. But he is 0-2 now since 2010, and the second band fell apart more quickly than the first. Believe me, I wish Glenn nothing but the best. I never knew who he was until BCC, and he quickly became one of my favorite singers/bassists/song writers. BCC 2 is a monumental achievement in retro hard rock, and he wrote most of the album. Sure, the individual playing was all great, but it was the songs that really shined as a whole. Believe it or now, I'm still carry a torch in hopes of a BCC 4 album. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod in Toronto Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 To be honest, knowing that the band was already falling apart, I didn´t check out Afterglow. Is it worth it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Presto-digitation Posted August 26, 2014 Author Share Posted August 26, 2014 Yes. I actually prefer it to the debut overall. Very underrated album. I hope for a BCC4 as well. Supposedly Joe and Glenn are talking again. I don't see a reformation happening, but an album down the line probably is not an impossibility either. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maverick Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 I still can't get into Afterglow, but not because the songs are bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Presto-digitation Posted August 26, 2014 Author Share Posted August 26, 2014 Then why?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 All the BCC albums are good. And I like the California Breed pretty well too. It's all about what you expect from a project though, I wasn't expecting too much from CB. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 CALIFORNIA BREED 'Is Over' January 15, 2015 http://assets.blabbermouth.net/media/californiabreedcastillo2014_638.jpg CALIFORNIA BREED, the band originally built around the foundation of legendary vocalist-bassist Glenn Hughes, drummer extraordinaire Jason Bonham and newcomer guitarist-singer-songwriter Andrew Watt, "is over", according to a posting on the group's official Facebook page. Watt elaborated on the CALIFORNIA BREED split in a separate posting, writing: "To the CALIFORNIA BREED fans here, I put everything I had into this band. All I can say is I was in it for the long hall. "I have a lot of new music for you guys. "[i am] going to be announcing my plans soon. "I cannot tell you how much I appreciate you supporting us, buying our music, coming to our shows. "This is not the end... It is truly the beginning. " cannot wait to continue the quest to bring rock 'n' roll back to the people that are hungry for it. "What an amazing learning experience for me here and introduction to an amazing world of people and fans that share love for the same thing." California BreedMusician/Band · 17,310 Likes · 6 hrs · The band is over...what a logo though right?? California BreedMusician/Band · 17,310 Likes · 5 hrs · To the California Breed fans here...I put everything I had into this band...all I can say is I was in it for the long hall...I have a lot of new music for you guys...going to be announcing my plans soon...I cannot tell you how much I appreciate you supporting us, buying our music, coming to our shows...this is not the end...it is truly the beginning...cannot wait to continue the quest to bring rock n roll back to the people that are hungry for it...what an amazing learning experience for me here and introduction to an amazing world of people and fans that share love for the same thing.Love,Andrew Watt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod in Toronto Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 You beat me to it, t-d. It´s too bad, just last week I heard their album in full while running, and loved it even more than when it was released. Another short lived Hughes project... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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